Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-05-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

executed on the 10th.
| A BOILER at the saw-miN OF Betz q
Morrison at Galiopolis, O., exploded on
| the 18th, wrecking the mill and I'M uring
/ five men-three fatally.
| MR.. PARNELL appeared in the lobby OF
| the British House CT Commons on the 18TH
| CAPTAIN SAMUEL .cARNEs OF the famous
| Chickasaw Guards - oae OF the militia OF
| ficers selected by General Augur for a
position on his staff at the militia encamp-
1 ment in Washington.
| GEORGE e. REID, ex-city treasurer of
Bismarck, Oak, who left for parts I'M
known on the 14th, and who is supposed
| to be in Canada now, is nephew Of the
| late Alex. Mitchell, of Milwaukee.
| e. R. ELLIS, prominent citizen of
| Coatesville, Ind, was brutally assaulted
| on the night of the 10th by a dssp crate
character named Steve Hampton, Jr., and
! was nearly beaten to death. Mr.. Ellis is
| amember of the Democratic county central
committee, and an advocate Of the tenn.
perance cause.
THE reports of the discovery of an oil
well in the Turtle Mountain region, one
hundred miles north of Bismarck, Oak,
| has occasioned no small amount of ex-
| element and it is believed that the
| stampede into that region will be great.
/ The oil was discovered while boring q
we'll and it is said to be flowing rapidly.
| O'BRIEN and his friends were stoned by
a mob in Toronto on the 18th, and O'Brien,
| together with several others were quite
| badly hurt The police finally dispersed
| the turbulent element
| NINE. JANAUsCHEK, the famous actres 8,
| fell down stairs at Newport, r. L, on the
| night of the 18th and broke an arm.
| MAJOR. j. L. RATHBoNE, of California,
has been appointed Consul General Of the
| United States at Paris.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has definitely
concluded to make the visit to st. Louis in
the fall, and has so expressed himself
| THE failure of Swan, the Wyoming cat
tie king, it now transpires, was the result
of a confidence game practised by an al
legged agent of Scotch syndicate.
| THE French Cabinet crisis is still the
absorbing theme in Paris and Europe
| generally. The indications favor a pro-
longed disagreement.
A MONUMENT to the memory of Schuyler
Colfax was unvailed at Indianapolis On
| the 18th. 1t was erected by the Odd
Fellows and the Daughters of Rebecca.
| 1T is denied from st. Petersburg that
the Afghan boundary settlement has
failed.
| j. CoNDIT SMITH has explained the
mystery of his being shot in New York
| city two months ago. He confesses that
he did the deed himself, with intent to
prejudice a rival in the affections of a
| lady.
| JUDGE COOLEY has written a long letter
| defining the powers of the Interstate
| Commerce Commission, with special ref
erence to the fourth ection and it's sus-
pens ION.
| FORMAL complaint against the Missouri
Pacific railroad has been filed by the As
ISOLATED Wholes ale Grocers of st. Louis
| before the Interstate Commerce Com
| mission.
| A FIvE-THoUsAN DOLLAR express pack
| age, recently stolen at Ottawa, Ont, has
been recovered from it's place of conceal
ment in a lumber-pile; contents intact.
| BERLIN views on the French Cabinet
crisis, concisely stated, are that Boulanger
| is bound to remain as Minister of War in
any event, and that constant French
preparations for war must end in war.
JOHN G. GAULT, representing the Queen
& Crescent lines, had hearing before
the Interstate Commerce Com mission on
the 18th, his object being to secure the
suspension of the fourth section of the
law.
Two members of the Illinois Senate en-
down argument during the session on
the 18th. One of the pugilistic law franz
ers got corker in the eye.
A FIRE at New Haven, Conn, on the
18th, in the White building, which occu-
pies an entire block in Centre street,
caused loss of SIS, 600, principally by
| water.
QUEEN VICTORIA will review 80, 900 poor
school children at Hyde Park June %.
Each child is to be presented with mug
common Grating the Queens in Dilee.
Mr.. TRoTTER, the recorder of deeds for
the District of Columbia. who has been
seriously ill for some months, has so far
| recovered as to be out, and will be in his
office in few days.
A TERRIFIC explosion of nitro -glycerine
occurred on the 18th at Spirit Lake, eight
miles from Duluth, MINI. Eighty-three
hundred pounds of the explosive was
stored in a wooden building 50 by 80 feet.
| Where this stood is now hole 100 by 60
feet, and Is to 40 feet deep Two tramps
are missing and a woman was severely
injured.
THE Russian police have discovered a
Nihilist plot at Nova Tcherkask, the
capital of the couStry of the Don Cos
| sacks. Thirty persons implicated in the
conspiracy were arres ted.
AT meeting of the Eighty Club in Lon
don, on the 18th, to determine the attitude
| of the club toward Gladstones Irish poll
cy, 143 members voted for approval of
home rule and against coercion, and fifty
five in favor of coercion and against home
| rule.
SECRETARY MANNING did not overesti-
| mate the revenue of 1SS6-S7 when he put
it at 1856, 100000. 1t will go some millions
higher, and will probably touch the round
figure of 1866, 900, 0O0-a million dollars for
every day in the year. This sum will pay
| the accruing interest of the National
debt, the immense appropriation for pen
sions, and all the expenditures of the
country, and still leave, beside the sink
ing-fund, 800. 900, 900 surplus.
THE Michigan forest fires were still
| raging on the 10Th.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature adjourn
ed sine die on the 10Th.
Mr.. GLADSTONE denies that he has any
intention of visiting the United States.
THE National League of America n
| Wheelmen met in st. Louis on the Goth.
THE Nickel-Plate railroad was sold on
| the 10Th at Cleveland, o.
| In quarrel on the 10th, at Philadelphia,
one woman fatally beat another.
In the British House of Com mons, on
the 10Th, a warm discussion occurred on
the question of Irish emigration.
A DUEL took place near Paris on the 10Th
between the husband of an actress and an
editor. The editor was wounded.
THE Missouri Bicycle Club gave recep-
! ton on the night of the 10Th to Thomas
Stevens. thes'reund the world'' bicyclist.
1T is believed il Paris that De Freycinet
will have new ministry formed by the
| Esd, and that BouIanger will be retained.
In a wreck on the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad, on the 18th, Grace Leslie,
! an actress, was killed.
| MARY FEssLER, twenty-three years old,
was shot and killed at San Francisco on
| the 10Th by Philip Keyenberg, cabinet
| maker. Keyenberg then shot and killed
| himself It is thought the girl refused to